Beschreibung
brings together a range of texts on totalitarian manipulations of language. The volume collects the work of over three decades, including essays written during the communist era and more recent pieces assessing the legacy of totalitarian ways of thinking in contemporary Poland.
Autorenportrait
Micha? G?owi?ski is among the most eminent Polish literary scholars. In a career spanning almost six decades at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN), he has published over thirty books, largely specializing in twentieth-century Polish literature and literary theory.
Inhalt
Contents: Totalitarian Speech – Newspeak – Communism – Nazism – Anti-Semitism – Polish Literature.
